Topic:
Unfounded reports
(Lightford, D-Chicago) authorizes state’s attorneys to receive unfounded reports of child abuse or neglect to screen and prosecute a subsequent allegation of abuse or neglect relating to the same child, sibling of the child, or the same perpetrator. Allows the unfounded report to be admissible in prosecuting a petition for abuse or neglect in those circumstances. On second reading in the Senate after passing out of Senate Judiciary Committee.